If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

My earliest memories are being pinned to a fence with a switchblade.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

Every day you must be able to say, I have to get up because I'm needed by someone. As long as you have that, you're healthy.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.